skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> without the longevity of Twitter/FB posts, people just wouldn't think twice about what they're saying

You clearly have not yet witnessed the bad parts of Facebook and
Twitter. I've seen people calling for genocide on Facebook under
their real name and that's not even remotely the worst.

Facebook's content moderation teams are basically getting
PTSD[0] by default as they enforce rules that specify under what
circumstances photos of things like animal abuse or decapitation
are acceptable(!).

The assumption that people behave normally on the internet when
they're not anonymous is provably false. You might think that
intuitively, but that's because you're a decent person.

[0] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/19/facebook-content-moderators-...
I saw a talk with Ian Banks a year before he died and at the end of the talk one of the questions from the audience was about why he made so utopian books. He answered that he saw that it was likely that when we create AI and they become more intelligent than us with the potential to rule over us, that the AI will be kind and beneficial to their makers.

I think he really did see that the end result of technology was good for the human race.
I thought it might be a tax harvesting plan. Dunno. Last I looked into Ikea I thought their whole corporate structure was odd: the stores are part of a non-profit holding company that licenses the brand and furniture as art or something to that affect. Seems dodgy.
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i'm thinking about something that uses pip npm and apt to autogenerate lists of software so there's "topics" and "people" who can either be cowardly anonymous or have a psuedonym.

The author can use version numbers if they'd like and also browse from the command line. You can follow either topics or people, it's very microblogging, I know.

it's not meant to be productive, it's meant to be cathartic for those times where you inherit a project that's using a terrible tool that's 4 versions behind with no upgrade path and you don't have the time or resources to rewrite the code so instead you have to painfully maintain it.

It's for those things you simply disagree with. The gtk-3 filechooser, firefox still having ctrl+q that could essentially be renamed "kill -9" or other things that you need to work around and everyone's gotten the idea that there's no intention whatsoever of accepting one of the many pull requests to fix it that are just hanging out collecting dust.

It's not for the good stuff, it's for the bad stuff that because we live in a world bound by material reality we also have to use.

The banned stuff would be quite different than other places. No proper names might be appropriate - for instance, no witch-hunting or bullying specific people behind the software.

It's an interesting line.

"God damn it, SimpleAcme must honestly be written by intoxicated people who just pass out on their keyboards and roll their head around in dreams smashing code in to their IDE"

is acceptable. But replace "SimpleAcme" with "Jonathan Q. Coder" and then it's maybe over the line? I dunno ... I should try it out and see what happens
I know that's what they meant, but I disagree that it lowered the barrier to creating actual applications or to getting into programming.

Everyone who had MS Office installed back in the 1990s (which was basically everyone) could easily run some quick VB code to try things.

But the difference was that you could also create proper applications with a UI, a database and (optionally!) some glue code.

We just had no good way of distributing our apps. Creating anything collaborative that wasn't restricted to a local network was exceedingly difficult as well.

The Web fixed all that, albeit at the cost of cratering developer productivity, a massive increase in complexity and higher barriers to entry for new devs.

And if you're asking me why the number of developers exploded while the barriers to entry supposedly went up, my answer is that the new opportunities that came with unrestricted worldwide distribution of software trumped the narrower issue of writing that software in the first place.
What percentage likelihood of being wrong would convince you that caution was necessary? Personally, I wouldn't be very happy with even a 1% chance of humanity being annihilated
> Two photos taken from the same spot show Tokyo's Harajuku district on Jan. 21, 2021. [...] In the left image, the distance between the people is obvious, but that sense of perspective is weak in the right image.

That is true, and it concerns appearance.

Let's talk about facts: in both photos, there are just too many people around. In Covid times, you stay at home.
Ads were fine when they used page content as the context.

"Personalized" ads are partly a scam to devalue publishers: set a tracking cookie when a user is on an expensive-to-advertise-on website, and then serve ads to the very same user when they visit cheap sites. I'm dumbfounded why reputable publishers put up with this.
Does pi (math) exist at all is perhaps the more interesting question. Or that why can seemingly ‘random’ rules we made up be applied to the real world. Especially when it comes to infinity.
Building a Culture of Ownership: Plaid and Dropbox
I don't see how your assumption follows from that statement at all. I see it as a statement suggesting that their current fortunes are simply not big enough that any kind of redistribution sufficient to make a major difference wouldn't have a measurable effect on them personally.
Ah yes, good point, it has been 12 years.
Build your product in public – by Ryan Hoover
Yup, I had some second-hand (a desk, used for four eyars) and third-hand (an office chair, used for the last ~9 years) and yes it's pretty durable.

The chair show it's ages on the fake-leather upper side (where your back lays) but then again... It's been used at elast nine years (but maybe it's been ten or eleven).
So they serve two versions of every file, one for browsers using Widevine's scheme and another for everything else using their own scheme? And the benefit of Widevine is that it's a closed-source blob shipped with the browser itself (or not, as is the fundamental issue solved by the OP) rather than some obfuscated javascript, so you have zero access to it? At least until it ultimately writes PCM to the soundcard where you can then do what you want with it.
Asymmetric Competition: A strategy for China and Technology (2020) [pdf]
I was recently moved to write to them on encountering the following completely unparsable sentence:

"People of ethnic group membership can change over time and with age."

They fixed it eventually (though I doubt it had anything to do with my comment).

There was also the following opinion piece, which still makes the utterly absurd claim that Jesse Jackson campaigned for the capitalization of 'African American':

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/21/black-...

(I hope the fact that both of my examples happen to relate somewhat to race doesn't make me sound like an alt right troll. I'm sympathetic to the article. It just seems that there was a major fact checking or editing fail.)
30K+ users and 100K+ monthly views
Apologies, I meant conservative in the sense of resistance to contemplate new ideas rather than the political sense. Somewhat naively I had assumed that academic research was where people would be most welcoming of at least discussing new ideas, whereas I found the opposite to be true.
I had no idea these were painted. Have always assumed it was colored plastic like in the C64s and Amigas.
I don’t like it. Some features are neat, but not overwhelming. I was sad, when Picasa went. Panoramio also not working anymore - well im out of the topic.
Yes, but to get a long term net effect we'd have to bury them about as deep as the fossils we are excavating. I dare claim that this won't happen (it would be far cheaper/more efficient to leave those fossils and synthesize something from those trees up here)

Sometimes I wonder, as a mind experiment, how close we could get to practical carbon burial with a process based on sinking polymer blocks in the ocean: the specifics of the polymer blocks wouldn't matter at all as long as the surface doesn't degrade into spreading microplastics and total density would be high enough to sink, and they could be shaped like standard containers for easy logistics. The result of the mind experiment is always the same, even that could not possibly compete with leaving fossils underground.
It compresses stuff. Amazing.
The problem there is that most ways to add carbon pricing are against the self interest of whomever enacts it. Point-of-extraction is especially bad because it places all of the initial burden on the few places that actually extract carbon, who are probably not going to like that idea.
It is good that the UK is trying to tackle the vitamin D deficiency problem that is affecting its population. However, it should probably not be done under the "covid prevention" banner, the paper suggesting that vitamin D might protect against it recently "earned an expression of concern":

https://retractionwatch.com/2020/10/26/paper-suggesting-vita...
> One can explain anything based on the God hypothesis

Why would it be the case?
1+1=3 because God exists? And thus your conclusion is false.
How about power consumption?

Or PCIe Gen 4 support?

I wouldn't say Intel has anything worth looking into if you want 32 or 64 cores on the desktop.
In 3 millenias: « Woah! Free chopped wood for our furnaces, from just a dozen feet underground! » — Wait, exactly what we did.
> If it passes, than the decoupling from China can happen in earnest, not least of which in manufacturing its hard to think it wouldn't mainly go to Vietnam, or India as much of it would still be outsourced.

As much as I'd like it to happen, it won't. India has a ridiculous bureaucracy, and South East Asia cannot simply scale to Chinese manufacturing levels.

> it's still a critical step in making sure the CCP understand their are consequences for their actions, specifically with its horrible practices in covering up COVID and lying about its susceptibility with Human to Human transmission and its censoring and dissapearing of it's citizens and its crimes agianst Humanity in Xianjing, and Hong Kong.

What consequences? Disney launched Mulan right during the HK protests. Everyone's still doing business with China.

If you want business to stop with China, you'll have to swallow the bullet and let the stock market fall. Let companies like Disney, Apple and Tesla suffer from a total embargo against China, and sanction countries from doing business with China, else they get sanctioned. Cool, now the US just tanked their stock market, sanctioned everyone on the planet including the EU, LatAm, Middle East, India and SEA, which in turn leads to everyone sanctioning the US back, while China establishes trade relations with them. Suddenly everyone in the Old World is using Sina Weibo and Baidu and Alipay and Wechat Pay.

China is too integrated to the world economy now, in some way or the other. Cutting it off is going to be too self damaging for the US. Blame Kissinger, Apple, etc.
Thus, growing a tree and burning the wood (or disposing of it) is 100% carbon neutral. What's the problem, then?
To all the juniors reading this: Don't worry about looking stupid, just keep asking questions. In my first year programming I asked my boss so many questions that he actually got pissed once and lost his cool on me, but that went right over my head. Nobody will fire you because you are asking for more detail around something or wanting to know why or how something works.
But you will def lose pts with managers if you don't finish projects on time. Just ask those questions and finish your work ahead of time :)
LZ4 rocks. Used it in the past with great results (much less CPU intensive then the GZIP we were using, still getting good compression).
That's a really disappointing attitude to see in the wild.
>Maybe PC collecting, restoring etc. will be as big a deal but it's just early on the curve still

It is a fairly big deal for a lot of us, just in this room I'm sitting in I've got 3 vintage machines from the late 70s to early 80s, and 3 generations of Windows machines (95, 98, XP), alongside my work and personal computers. There are vintage computer fairs the world around, there are vintage computer clubs (ours here in the general Indy area meets monthly) the world around, there are numerous podcasts and some sizable YouTube content creators too.

There is even a healthy level of developing new software and hardware for vintage computers and consoles.

https://atariage.com/ is a quick look at (mostly, but not exclusively) Atari related for example. Then you have

YouTube creators like:

- LGR https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLx053rWZxCiYWsBETgdKrQ

- Gaming Historian https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbvPS_rXp4PC21PG2k1UVg

- Modern Vintage Gamer https://www.youtube.com/c/ModernVintageGamer

- Adrian's Digital Basement https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE5dIscvDxrb7CD5uiJJOiw

- 8Bit Guy https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8uT9cgJorJPWu7ITLGo9Ww

- Nostalgia Nerd https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7qPftDWPw9XuExpSgfkmJQ

- This Does Not Compute https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEp20NgOZHmgWdbQdHSxgjw

- Noel's Retro Lab https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2-SP1bYi3ueKlVU7I75wFw

- RMC - The Cave https://www.youtube.com/user/RetroManCave

- My Life in Gaming https://www.youtube.com/c/mylifeingaming

etc. A lot of the above channels have videos restoring vintage hardware, or doing dream builds with vintage hardware.

Podcasts like:

- ANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast https://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/

- Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast https://floppydays.libsyn.com/

- Amigos Retro Gaming Network https://player.fm/series/amigos-retro-gaming-network-amigos-...

- Retro Computing Roundtable http://rcrpodcast.com/

- Sprite Castle https://podcast.robohara.com/category/spritecastle/

- RetroMacCast https://retromaccast.libsyn.com/

etc

Hardware and software developers/stores like:

- https://retroradionics.co.uk/ (bought a brand spankin' new Joystick for my Atari machines from them in December, it's very nice)

- https://atariage.com/store/ (you say you want to play Halo on your 2600?)

- https://lotharek.pl/

- https://www.atarimax.com/

- https://newstuffforoldstuff.com/index.py

etc

There is also a very healthy vintage computer preservation community on the Internet Archive - preserving magazines, zines, newsletters, manuals, schematics, software, etc.

- https://archive.org/details/vintagesoftware

- https://archive.org/details/atari_2600_library

- https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_c64

- https://archive.org/details/commodore_c64_manuals

etc.
The relevant thing is unsaid. What was going on on Parler and Gab that warranted such action? I've seen pretty horrifying things on Gab that makes that "Camp Auschwitz Staff" hoodie seem office-appropriate.
For me, this is the Internet. It is an unwelcome, but arguably useful X-ray of the society.

I believe that erasing such people from a worldwide forum veers dangerously close to covering an alarm signal on your car's dashboard with black tape because it is annoying and life feels better without worrying about what might be happening under the hood.

I prefer living my life without illusions about the rest of humanity, doubly so in politics.
I agree about your point on complexity, that was my second thought. Especially for such critical pieces of infrastructure. Thank you for mentioning doa, I will have a look.

But the two are pieces of the same puzzle (defence in depth). Ideally, SUID binaries should be formally specified/verified (ada+spark?), though you could still have bugs in the specification.

And I'd argue that if you need more specific features than just `sudo`'s core functionality, you should probably just make your own setuid binary. That still exposes you to making the same mistakes, so better keep the complexity low, and still rely on a memory-safe language. Using proved, lightweight libraries helps getting an implementation correct.

As much as I like C (which is the language I'm most proficient with), it just gives you too many ways to shoot yourself in the foot, and IMO isn't really the best suited for something where:

- performance doesn't really matter

- memory safety, typechecking are critical.

You could always get away with a transpiler for a DSL, or a compiler that injects more checks, but better suited tools are available anyway.
> The home OS should containerize all externally obtained binaries, assigning limited resources to them, as chosen by the user. The package distributors do not get to decide what level of access do they need; from they point of view, all resources are available; but the user must be able to add limits from the other side, unbeknownst to the (potentially hostile) package distributor.

The problem is that the user can't be expected to know which resources an app needs ("Hey, this thing wants to access /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so, sounds suspicious, let's deny it"), but OTOH you're fully correct that the user must have the choice to deny specific access, perhaps by giving the app fake or empty data. So I think both are needed, so honest app developers can specify a minimum set of permissions the app needs to work to reduce the havoc a programming error in the app can create, but also giving the user opportunity to limit what the app can see (the user presumably want a word processor to be able to read and write a document the user is working on at the moment, but not everything in the users home directory).
How would you get started? And did you turn it into your fulltime job?
https://docs.qq.com/sheet/DTUNBRnBvRktkZE9q?tab=BB08J2
The only problem with that is the law-makers themselves would kill to have such an excellent tracking apparatus.

The likes of Amazon, Google, and Facebook are the envy of the Government, if anything.
Excess mortality associated with the Covid-19 by occupation
I did read them. And I don't remember any instance where Bezoses or Musks were actively sought out and disempowered.

On the contrary, they can develop stuff without having to ensure employees are happy and fed. That burden is taken care of by the AI. Plus, if their ideas are any good, AI will help further by offloading most of the corporate management. How can Musk and Bezos not like that?
Monitoring vs. Observability: what's the difference and how's Twitter doing it?
Var, Let, and Const – What's the Difference?
Not at all. The OP was maintaining because the brand changed hands that it was somehow a scam, that feels quite disingenuous.
As a side note: we are all adults. What is so hard about stating

> Please do not use a comcast.net email address to purchase a license key, they blackhole our email.

Super simple and short (assuming that explanation from a sibling comment is correct). People are much more likely to oblige/agree when the reason for a rule is stated.
> Especially in JS community - yes, I’m picking at you guys again.

Don't worry, we're not offended because we know it's true.

I bet that pretty much most of NPM's package index consists only of weekend prototype projects that are abandoned afterwards. It's sad to see that there's literally no baseline of quality measurements on NPM, and people give them stars far too quickly, without realizing that it's literally a single line of code with megabytes of useless testing around it.

Most of the patterns in UI/UX frameworks that come and go all the time are actually very very old paradigms that have been known in Computer Science since the 60s-70s. I always feel like no one reads a book about Software Engineering or Software Patterns anymore, let alone tries to find patterns in alternatives and makes a pro/contra list of features to find out what they actually want.

All go hush hush and rush rush to put out their next starlet on GitHub, without actually thinking about a software architecture anymore. Those that do are somehow invisible to the masses; and can never gain really a traction behind their ideas, which leads to the abandoned code problem either way.
Pricing negative externialities is EXACTLY the kind of thing market economies are terrible at.
The thing about IKEA's stuff is that you usually cannot disassemble and reassemble most of it back losslessly when, say, moving houses.

But then again, a lot of more expensive furniture doesn't fare any better.
I mean sure, but a forest will still capture more carbon than a plain. And it provides many more advantages than just capturing carbon for the diversity of our ecosystem.
Uhm... what's new? I cannot talk about spotify because I don't have a premium account, but I see netflix shows on my π3b since a pair of years...
If I can go out safely and I know I & others are respecting the rules, theres zero chance of me staying at home.

Lens compression was absolutely making the general public look irresponsible.
I bought almost all my IKEA furniture second-hand. Many of them were taken apart and re-built 3 or 4 times in the last 10 years. Most of them hold up really well.

I cannot confirm that IKEA furniture is not durable. It's mostly not hardwood, yes! Of course if you're not careful you can rip out a screw. But that screw or that board is usually easily replaced. And of course, IKEA also has cheaper and more expensive models, models that are not very robust, and models that are.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galinstan
At the moment no,but its not that far, one has to write macros to replace words to special chars which simple means introducing a new command in the codebase which already has a good structure and structured in a way to support multiple languages.
I've started this project, so i could type in julia lang(in pluto notebook).
currently one could type text, emoji, and do some other stuff, which is defined in terms of commands
see full list of command in the readme of
https://github.com/fxnoob/voice-typing-for-desktop/tree/mast...
Are you familiar with Opera Mini's(mobile) extreme data saving mode? It's quite remarkable at reducing web page sizes and has an option to render images at a preferred quality, or turn it off altogether. Also, some of the design of the original web page is preserved and it's somewhat usable.

But the issue with it is all the compression happens on their servers before reaching you, which is troublesome from a privacy standpoint. I wish there was a browser(or a selfhosted instance) similar to Opera Mini which can compress pages before it reaches the client
It is worse. If you mention that you are not trusting every scientific results per se, you're being labeled as stupid and uneducated. This sort of absolute reasoning is making the distrust even worse. How can you have trust in a in a system that is unwilling to publicly admit its shortcomings? Trust and honesty come in pairs.
>Current-gen Intel & AMD processors are pretty much neck-to-neck in both performance and price.

I think this is only if you ignore multi-threading but I might be wrong, did Intel release better multi core CPUs or cut down the prices?
Vavatch was destroyed by a militarised Culture GSV but it wasn't "owned" by the Culture.
I've always heard it was 35mm. Weird.

Then again, it's also weird to try and guess what an average perspective would even be, as it's dependent on screen size and distance from face. I wonder how consistent the "arc-length" is between people and devices
My ikea side tables were £4 each (called Lack I think, about 5 and a half usa dollars), I could not afford anything more expensive at the time. If you can get me two side tables made from solid wood that last for hundreds of years for less than £10 then I would 100% choose those over the Lacks. In fact at the time, I'd have gone up to £20 or £25 if I knew they were that good quality.